For me at least, 2009 was a bit of a strange year in house and techno music. Much of it was frustration at the quality of music that was out there, a saturation of the market in which every budding producer and nascent label was doing its best to imitate and duplicate whatever was deemed successful by that great bastion of creative judges, the Beatport Top 10. It was getting harder and harder to find the worth through this increasing vista of often forgettable music. I am sure much of what was released was with good intentions, and I am positive that those releases that often fell by the wayside were made with genuine enthusiasm and a love for the music. Yet as the year steadily ticked by,...
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